[socal-piggies] Thank you & A little PWC code

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Hey Jathan! Thanks so much for spending time on PWC! If you send a
request for your changes to be pulled back into the main repository,
then I or Luke can do that pull.

Grig

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:16 AM, jathan. <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I had a great time at the meeting on Thursday.  It was good to meet
> the handful of you that I did, and I really enjoyed the presentations.
>  I am definitely looking forward to presenting something about Python
> & security in the future.
>
> I wanted to jump in start getting involved with PWC, so I started
> studying the Hurl source code and some posts from the authors about
> how they used Redis as their datastore.  I had never used Redis
> before, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn.  The
> key-value storage method is quite different than SQL, so this is good
> exercise.
>
> I cloned pwc and pushed some changes to my personal repository that
> implemented rudimentary functionality.  Here is a basic rundown:
>
> * Stuck with Tornado as web server since it is so easy to use.
> * Implemented authentication (no registration yet, so you'll have to
> manually create a user in Redis)
> * Attached redis and redis-interaction methods to BaseHandler class.
> * Session persistence through secret cookie.
> * URL fetching and display with highlighting (using Pygments of course)
> * "Smart" highlighting based on content-type.  Javascript/JSON
> responses are pretty-printed (indentation, newlines).
>
> I posted my notes on the process on the wiki for my clone of the repo:
> http://bitbucket.org/jathanism/pwc/wiki/Home
>
> And here is the link to the changeset:
> http://bitbucket.org/jathanism/pwc/changeset/380e09dd2c84/
>
> I am in no way dictating how things should proceed, but just wanted to
> shared what I had tinkered with over the long weekend.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Jathan.
> -
>
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